Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia,United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art,founded by William John Beamont,a Fellow of Trinity College at University of Cambridge,in 1858. It became a university in 1992,and was renamed after John Ruskin,the Oxford University professor and author,in 2005. Ruskin gave the inauguration speech of the Cambridge School of Art in 1858. It is one of the "post-1992 universities". The motto of the university is in Latin Excellentia per societatem,in English Excellence through partnership. Anglia Ruskin University was named University of the Year 2023 by Times Higher Education.
Valerie Ann Amos,Baroness Amos,is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN,she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997,serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
Dorothea Glenys Thornton,Baroness Thornton,known as Glenys Thornton,is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 1998. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,she was a Government Whip and Health Minister between 2008 and 2010.
Usha Kumari Prashar,Baroness Prashar,is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s,she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006.
Michael George Bichard,Baron Bichard is a former public servant in the United Kingdom,first in local and then as a civil servant in central government. He was director of the Institute for Government,currently serves as one of its first fellows,and was chair of the Design Council. He was a created a crossbench life peer on 24 March 2010. He is an advisor to The Key Support Services Limited,which provide leadership and management support to school leaders and governors. He became chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) in 2013.
Stephen John Field is a general practitioner and Chairman of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. He was previously Chief Inspector of General Practice at England's Care Quality Commission. He is a past Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He is Honorary Professor of Medical Education at the University of Warwick (2002–present) and Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Birmingham (2003–present).
Patricia Lesley Hollis,Baroness Hollis of Heigham,PC,DL was an historian and a Labour member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.
Sarah Virginia Brinton,Baroness Brinton,known as Sal Brinton,is a British politician who served as president of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2020. In November 2010 she was nominated to the House of Lords,taking her place on 10 February 2011 having been created Baroness Brinton,of Kenardington in the County of Kent on 4 February. After Jo Swinson lost her seat at the 2019 United Kingdom general election,Brinton and Sir Ed Davey became acting co-leaders of the Liberal Democrats.
David Gifford Leathes Prior,Baron Prior of Brampton is the former chairman of NHS England and chairman of University College Hospital. He served as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 1997 until the 2001 general election,when he lost his seat to Norman Lamb of the Liberal Democrats by 483 votes. In 2015,he was appointed as a life peer in the House of Lords.
Dame Katharine Mary Barker is a British economist. She is principally noted for her role at the Bank of England and for advising the British government on social issues such as housing and health care.
Nuala Patricia O'Loan,Baroness O'Loan,MRIA,known between 2007 and 2009 as Dame Nuala O'Loan,is a noted public figure in Northern Ireland. She was the first Police Ombudsman from 1999 to 2007. In July 2009,it was announced that she was to be appointed to the House of Lords and she was so appointed in September 2009. In December 2010,National University of Ireland,Maynooth appointed her as Chairman of its Governing Authority. She is a columnist with The Irish Catholic.
Dame Josephine Williams,is a British administrator and social worker who was the chief executive of Mencap until 1 November 2008. She was chairman of the Care Quality Commission between 2010 and 2012.
Joyce Brenda Gould,Baroness Gould of Potternewton is a British Labour Party politician.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England.
Margaret Anne Ford,Baroness Ford OBE FRSE is a Scottish business woman and non-aligned British peer. She was appointed by Tony Blair as a Labour Peer in 2006,but resigned the Labour Whip in 2009 and now sits as a Crossbencher. She is Chair of New River REIT plc and Chair of Deloitte UK Audit Governance Board.
Meral Hussein Ece,Baroness Hussein-Ece,is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokeswoman for Equalities from 2015 until 2016,under leader Tim Farron.
Sally Ralea Greengross,Baroness Greengross,was a British politician. Awarded an OBE in the 1993 New Year Honours,Greengross was raised to the peerage as Baroness Greengross,of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 2000,sitting as a crossbencher.
Diana Mary "Dido" Harding,Baroness Harding of Winscombe is a British businesswoman and life peer who served as chair of NHS Improvement from 2017 to 2021 and as interim chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and head of NHS Test and Trace from 2020 to 2021.
Bernard Francisco Ribeiro,Baron Ribeiro,is a British surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2005 to 2008. He was created a life peer in 2010 and sat in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches until his retirement in 2023.
Judith Anne Jolly,Baroness Jolly is a Liberal Democrat life peer. She was raised to the peerage in 2010 and was introduced to the House of Lords in January 2011. Her maiden speech was made within a week on health issues and she immediately became involved in briefings on the Health and Social Care Bill.
